In an early scene from Tyler Perry’s 2006 film, Madea’s Family Reunion, a mother and daughter meet for lunch and discuss the younger woman’s upcoming wedding. When Mom notices a lack of enthusiasm, she asks for details and learns that the prospective groom is regularly beating her. With barely an arch of an eyebrow, Whitfield’s… Continue reading Why She Stays Vs. Why He Strikes: The Faulty Focus Of Domestic Violence
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Enabling Evil: Life Lessons From The Steubenville Rape Case
With his sixteenth birthday just around the corner, Darius is in that crazy stage of development between childhood and adulthood. With a deepening voice, long, lean limbs and a noticeable line of facial hair across his upper lip, it’s getting harder to deny that my oldest is just years away from driving, working, having dates… Continue reading Enabling Evil: Life Lessons From The Steubenville Rape Case